Monument



April 1 4, l1925. C. W. HUTCZHINS y MONUMENT Filed March 13, 1923.....nllllmmm @trouw Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

vCYR/US W. HUTCHINS, OF KEARNEY, NEBRASKA.

MONUMENT.

Application filed March 13, 1923. Serial No. 624,813.

To all Viii/zam #may concern.:

Be it known that l, CYRUS W7. HU'rc-HrNs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident ot Kearney, in the county of Buffalo and State ofNebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMonuments; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable otherslrslilled in the art to which it appertains to malte and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in monuments, particularly tosuch as are adapted for use in cemeteries,one object of lthe inventionbeing to so construct a monument that it may be made principally ofmetal and so that it may be utilized as a receptacle for growingflowers, or as a monument without flowers.

'lilith this and other objects in View, the invention consists incertain novel features Y of construction and combinations of paris ashereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims; Y

In the accompanying drawings,-

Figure 1 is a View in perspective showing the principal parts of themonument separated.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line Q-Z of Figure 3, and

Figure 3 is a sectional View on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

The body portion and its base 2 are preferably made of metal sheets notliable to rust. The base 2 is secured to the lower end of the bodyportion and is preferably.

made flaring and mounted upon a suitable foundation 3 of stone or othermaterial.

The body portion comprises front and rear plates L1-,5 and end plates6-6,-the latter having flanged vertical edge portions 7 which aresecured by welding or in any other suitable manner to the front and backplates. The front plate l is made with an opening 8 Vand at respectiveends of this opening, the metal of the sheet is bent inwardly andlaterally to form flanges 9-10 disposed at right angles to each other.The metal at the lower edge portion of the openino ing 8 is bentinwardly to form a flange 11 and from an intermediate portion of thisflange, a shorter flange l2 projects upwardly.V The rear plate 5 and theend plates 6 are constructed in the same manner and the laterallyprojecting flanges 10 at respec tive ends of each opening are connectedby a plate 13. In this manner the front, baci: and end plates of thebody is provided with pockets 14 open at their upper ends. Into thesepockets, slabs 15 which may contain siutable inscriptions, are inserted,said slabs being supported upon the inwardly project-- ing flanges 11 atthe lower edges of the openings and these flanges may be provided withholes 16 to receive dowel pins 17 depending from the lower edges of theslabs.

A receptacle 18 is inserted into the metal body frame and provided atits upper edges with lateral flanges 19 to overlie the upper end of thebody and thus said receptacle is supported within the body. Thisreceptacle may be constructed of metal.

A plurality of flower pots 2O (two being shown in the drawing) also madeof metal are located in the upper portion of the rcccptacle andsupported by means of lateral flanges 21 resting upon the flanges 19 ofthe receptacle, as clearly shown in Figure 3.

Should it not be desired to use the flower pots as such but give to thestructure, the appearance of a monument only, an ornamental cover 22 maybe placed over the flower pots, as shown in Figure 3.

The receptacle 18 may contain water and tubes 28 may be made tocommunicate with holes in the bottoms of the pots 20, said tubescontaining absorbent material, such as moss, which lwill cause water tobe supplied by capillary attraction from the receptacle to the flowerpots. A valved drain pipe 24: may also be provided for the receptacle18.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. A monument having a body portion comprising a plurality ot' metalplates secured together and each constructed with an open-top pocket,slabs supported in the pockets, and an ornamental cover extending overthe tops of the pockets and constituting a removable top for themonument.

2. A monument having a body consisting of side and end plates securedtogether and each having an opening therethrough, flanges projectinginwardly from the bot tom and side walls of the openings and havingterminal port-'ions directed over the speeeaton in the presence of twosubopenings, plates connecting the flanges at sel'bng Witnesses.

the sides of the openings whereby to form open-top pockets, slabs fittedin said pockets, CYRUS 7. HUTCHNS.

.5 and means to extend over the sabs and close Vtnesses:

the top of the monument. JOHN N. DRYDEN, In testlmonywhereof, I haveslgned thls FLORENCE MILLER.

